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Upgrading to ubuntu12.10 from 12.04, with octave3.6.4 installed(not octave2.6.2 default version) installed

Asked by Tilek

Dear Collegues,

Earlier today I upgraded ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10, and tried to install octave. Somehow I am getting the following error. I the upgrade inherited some ppa setup used for precise. Erros as follows:

sudo apt-get install octave
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 octave : Depends: octave-common (= 3.6.2-5) but 3.6.4-1~ppa1~precise1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Your support is appreciated.

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This question was originally filed as bug #1296651.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We understand the difficulties you are facing, but it is better to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. You can also find help posting your problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu's community http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at http://askubuntu.com. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What is the output of:

suudo apt-get clean; apt-cache policy octave octave-common

Thanks

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Tilek (tilek-aberra) said : 		#3

Hi,

octave:
  Installed: 3.6.2-5
  Candidate: 3.6.2-5
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.2-5 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
octave-common:
  Installed: 3.6.2-5
  Candidate: 3.6.2-5
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.2-5 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove octave octave-common
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
chmod +x ./fixpackage
sudo ./fixpackage
sudo apt-get install --reinstall octave octave-common

What is the full output please.

Thanks

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Tilek (tilek-aberra) said : 		#5

Dear actionparsnip,

Apology for the delay in response. I was busy with my office work the last 2-3days.

Output as requested below.

Note: now I am seeing ERROR which needs fix.

Cheers,

sudo apt-get --purge remove octave octave-common
[sudo] password for tilek:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for tilek:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  liboctave1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  octave* octave-common*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9,799 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 254881 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing octave ...
Purging configuration files for octave ...
dpkg: warning: while removing octave, directory '/usr/share/octave/packages' not empty so not removed
Removing octave-common ...
Purging configuration files for octave-common ...
dpkg: warning: while removing octave-common, directory '/usr/share/octave' not empty so not removed
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for man-db ...

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  liboctave1*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 28.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 253823 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing liboctave1:i386 ...
Purging configuration files for liboctave1:i386 ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
tilek@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get clean
tilek@ubuntu:~$ wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
--2014-03-28 20:43:44-- https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
Resolving dl.dropbox.com (dl.dropbox.com)... 184.73.230.112
Connecting to dl.dropbox.com (dl.dropbox.com)|184.73.230.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 FOUND
Location: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8850924/fixpackage [following]
--2014-03-28 20:43:45-- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
Resolving dl.dropboxusercontent.com (dl.dropboxusercontent.com)... 54.243.109.213, 75.101.166.165, 50.19.228.218, ...
Connecting to dl.dropboxusercontent.com (dl.dropboxusercontent.com)|54.243.109.213|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 468 [text/plain]
Saving to: `fixpackage.1'

100%[======================================================================================================>] 468 --.-K/s in 0s

2014-03-28 20:43:46 (153 MB/s) - `fixpackage.1' saved [468/468]

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Setting up smbclient (2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5.4) ...
Setting up samba-common-bin (2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5.4) ...
Setting up libsmbclient:i386 (2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5.4) ...
Setting up openssh-client (1:6.0p1-3ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up ssh-askpass-gnome (1:6.0p1-3ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
tilek@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall octave octave-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  octave-info octave-doc octave-htmldoc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  octave octave-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,681 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,799 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe octave-common all 3.6.2-5 [999 kB]
Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe octave i386 3.6.2-5 [1,682 kB]
Fetched 2,681 kB in 21s (123 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package octave-common.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liboctave1:i386' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 253816 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking octave-common (from .../octave-common_3.6.2-5_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package octave.
Unpacking octave (from .../octave_3.6.2-5_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Setting up octave-common (3.6.2-5) ...
Setting up octave (3.6.2-5) ...
octave: error while loading shared libraries: liboctinterp.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

It seems that some of the steps were in conflict with each other (first removing liboctave1, but later restoring status-old).

My advice:
Execute the following terminal commands

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 16126D3A3E5C1192
sudo apt-get install --reinstall liboctave1:i386 liboctave1 octave octave-common

Please copy/paste all output intio this question document as done before-

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Tilek (tilek-aberra) said : 		#7

Dear Manfred,

As requested; error still prevailed

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 16126D3A3E5C1192
[sudo] password for tilek:
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.JlLIzx8F9n --trustdb-name /etc/apt//trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 16126D3A3E5C1192
gpg: requesting key 3E5C1192 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 3E5C1192: public key "Ubuntu Extras Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
tilek@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall liboctave1:i386 liboctave1 octave octave-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 7,996 kB/8,994 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe liboctave1 i386 3.6.2-5 [7,996 kB]
Fetched 7,996 kB in 1min 8s (117 kB/s)
E: Internal Error, No file name for octave:i386

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#8

Try

sudo dpkg -i /var/apt/cache/archives/liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb
sudo dpkg --configure -a

and copy/paste all output as done before.

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Tilek (tilek-aberra) said : 		#9

Dear Manfred;

as requested:

but I think as I said earlier (Question #245953)

sudo apt-get install octave/quantal

Worked the miracle for me.

Cheers

sudo dpkg -i /var/apt/cache/archives/liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb
dpkg: error processing /var/apt/cache/archives/liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/apt/cache/archives/liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb
tilek@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up octave (3.6.2-5) ...
octave: error while loading shared libraries: liboctinterp.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing octave (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#10

Sorry, typo error on my side, should be

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb
sudo dpkg --configure -a

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Tilek (tilek-aberra) said : 		#11

DearManfred,

Output as follows:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liboctave1:i386' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 254874 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace liboctave1:i386 3.6.2-5 (using .../liboctave1_3.6.2-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement liboctave1:i386 ...
Setting up liboctave1:i386 (3.6.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
tilek@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up octave (3.6.2-5) ...

Further I checked octave is working fine now.
 octave
GNU Octave, version 3.6.2
Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i686-pc-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

octave:1> version
ans = 3.6.2

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Tilek (tilek-aberra) said : 		#12

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.